World’s Largest Wool Producing Countries | Geography

The major wool-producing countries, with the ex­ception of the U.S.S.R. are in the southern continents, where the warmer climates related to the limited southerly extent of the continents, provide better con­ditions for wool production than the damper, cooler conditions of many temperate areas in the northern hemisphere. The rather dry climates of interior Aus­tralia and South Africa and the rain-shadow [...]